Gadgetory

so the server room behind me has gotten a lot of upgrades since the last time I showed it off it got a gigantic ups that conditions power and acts as a battery backup and more recently it got an upgrade to our solid state editing Nazz going from normal SATA SSDs to nvme SSDs but what hasn't been upgraded is the organization this place is a disaster and we need to make some space for petabyte projects a clustered storage server that we're working on with Seagate and 45 drives so we've teamed up with cableorganizer.com Ubiquiti Networks bonded logic TRENDnet and proto Cakes to give Miss place a complete makeover so come along for the ride I mean look at this okay so the plan is as follows cleanup of the room cleanup of the servers table management of the room some reconfiguration and network switch movements upgrading our Wi-Fi here to our new ubiquity gear making room for the petabytes storage cluster by consolidating some of the roles of some of our servers adding acoustic dampening to the room so that it won't be so loud out here in the studio and adding dust filtration to the room so we won't end up with the same situation we were in before with everything being clogged up with dust as you might you guys might remember Johnny from previous episodes of Linus tech tips such as installing a UPS I lost the paper like planogram thing for our patch panel so your on figuring out what everything is going through right okay cool so oh wow are you rolling roll roll roll are you rolling okay so that is a perfect example of what can happen when you cable manage your server room like this I just accidentally stepped on one of our power squids then I knocked out oh no did I knock out new Wanek server oh my goodness okay well at any rate sorry Johnny I was just going to say so all of you like bonds that we set up in the switches I don't think a single one of the storage servers other than new Wanek which I just put in still has any of that stuff still plugged in this is one of the ingest stations for footage and we're going to be moving this actually to to a tower out here instead because what we discovered was as much as it's nice to have like your gtx 1070 69 50 X Extreme Edition systems like behind locking key we discovered that there are just issues if you se3 signaling that prevent all these high feat peripherals from working properly with long cables that go into the room every video yeah not anymore not even links they change sit down well while we wait for the vault to sync file systems and all that we can move pretty much everything that's not bolted down out of gear okay you know it's um it's amazing how my server room could end up in this condition right balls this is my current solution for a PD you or power distribution unit so I have these um like dollar-store power bars we have to shut the spring down hey Dennis are you still copying files on the ingest one yes ah yeah sorry I have to set it down we go you need to tear apart the room there okay so I had all matching drives in it became six terabyte ones but we completely ran out of capacity nowhere to put anything and I had to expand it somehow what oh those are you asking what happened to the 10 terabyte drives that were in the desk Oh suddenly there are six terabyte reddit yes these are not officially supported by unraised yet so I can't boot this system unless I pop these drives wait for it to boot up and then hot-swap them back in pretty much everything is off now Oh quiet now what I've never done this before the lifeblood of my company I'm just like pulling it apart no big deal right okay the like Genki lifeblood of my company like we're media production company literally nothing can happen without this room operating at a hundred percent or at least they're like sixty percent that it does oh okay okay this feels so wrong right now power bar is connected to the power squid the power squids connected to the other power squared actually no this power squid goes straight into the back of the GPS okay so that's not that's not that bad two layers of out Oh how that hurts will not finder I'm fine and just hit myself in the face I got to tell you I have actually lied to the staff about outages before where they've been like oh what happened and I was like oh yeah it was like a crash but like I stepped on a power cord yeah oh my goodness I just pulled this power supply out is that not lost here we go she that's all one of the new servers - what's my excuse for that the way these are table managed is like horrible in there yeah it makes it very difficult to forget it anything I have a plan for these so once everything is out of here we're going to like drill a hole in the top of the in the top of the cabinet what is this oh man yeah there's a lot of unnecessary cables flowing out through the wall here this is so funny look at this here's like my pathetic attempt at cable managing back when there were only five going there and I just like all these are not capable matters because they went in after the fact whew okay Wow that makes a big difference flour cables yeah you know what's funny too is we just bought a bunch more power squids and Power Bars because we were out of them and I'm returning like seven so the population I think this is about as far down as it gets until it's time to start pulling out servers yeah really not my favorite rail yeah got it oh my goodness it so does be a so while I'm busting out all the server and server rooms to ruin Johnny's working on is getting all of the switches taken out of the rack because every single one of them needs to move for us to do our new cable management schema Wow this is our oldest switch I've never actually blown it up before this one's kind of a funny config the guy from data cache recommended like a modern core i7 and like all this good stuff and I'm like can I just put some old hardware that I have lying around like yeah I guess so so she got like a p80 motherboard it's like an eight sixty or an eight 75 K or something like that and we do get like random restarts from time to time so that's another reason to move this over to a virtual machine Oh some mocha and now okay go ahead so these are both fully solid-state new servers yeah you got it okay yeah you know just the entire archive history of everything lmg has ever made I'll be careful with these SSDs hey tell I'll tell you something that hasn't happened since we moved in here oh the car still won't close damn it yeah the door closed on the server cabinet we partnered with Intel and telecine to talk about two-factor authentication it's a pretty important topic and if you care about online security you should definitely have it activated wherever possible if you don't know what two-factor authentication is it's an additional layer of security that you can add to your account beyond your password in fact we have a full video about it that you can check out here enabling it minimizes the chances of having someone gain access to your account even if they key log your password for example tons of websites have the feature but it's up to you to enable it so participate in Intel's turn on to FA campaign today all you have to do is turn on two-factor authentication for your primary email address and one other account after you've done that head to Twitter and use hashtag turn on to FA for a chance to win free pizza how can you go wrong tella sign will be giving away 40 free pizzas every week and Intel will also be giving away a Lenovo yoga 9 10 as the grand prize awesome let's slide the door what could go wrong